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Daily Cuts - Celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival at Chinatown Singapore from 7-9 June 2024

Melanie Oliveiro finds out more about the upcoming Dragon Boat Festival at Chinatown held from 7-9 June 2024. The meaning behind this year’s theme “Dragon Boat Festival: Of Thumping Drumbeats and Delicious Dumplings” will be explained. Listeners can also find out about the games and activities that await them including lantern riddles and a dragon boat craft workshop. Melanie will also find out how APSN Centre for Adults will be participating in the Dragon Boat Festival celebration in Chinatown on 8 June 2024.

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Daily Cuts - The Buzz about Beekeeping

To be or not to be a beekeeper? Noelani Waters, Bee and Nature Advocacy Lead with Comvita, tells Work It's Stanley Leong and Cheryl Goh how she’s gone from beekeeper to educator. We track her journey from Hawaii to New Zealand where she’s an active advocate for growing scientific knowledge and ethical standards on bee welfare.

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Daily Cuts - Samsonite VP Travels

Melanie Oliveiro speaks with Satish Peerubandi, Vice-President of Samsonite SEA, about his personal travels to Australia’s Margaret River region, Alaska in the USA and what it was like touring Italy’s Lake Como. Satish will share tips on where to go and what to discover, and what’s good to eat and drink.

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Daily Cuts - Thai Government prepared to take in evacuated Myanmar citizens

Thailand announces plans to accept an influx of people from across the Myanmar border, as a key town falls to ethnic armed groups. Joel Chua and Susan Ng speak with Erik Kuhonta, Associate Professor of Political Science, at McGill University to get more insights. 

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Daily Cuts - Are our Singaporean youths ready for the working world?

Susan Ng and Joel Chua speak with Jonathan Sim, Associate Fellow, NUS Teaching Academy and Lecturer, Department of Philosophy at NUS. He is the author of a commentary that explores why Singaporean youths are anxious about entering the workforce.

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Daily Cuts - Aaron Bunac

Melanie Oliveiro speaks with Aaron Bunac, a Filipino Chinese pop/R&B singer and pianist based in Singapore. Bunac will talk about his early beginnings getting into music before deciding to be an artiste, who his musical influences are, gigging as a session keyboardist, the meaning behind self-penned songs like ‘Change Your Mind’ and high profile appearances at Singapore’s National Day Parade 2022 and 2023.

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